کد مقاله کد نشریه سال انتشار مقاله انگلیسی نسخه تمام متن
1101118 953521 2008 20 صفحه PDF دانلود رایگان
عنوان انگلیسی مقاله ISI
The acoustic realization of vowels of Shanghai Chinese
موضوعات مرتبط
علوم انسانی و اجتماعی علوم انسانی و هنر زبان و زبان شناسی
پیش نمایش صفحه اول مقاله
The acoustic realization of vowels of Shanghai Chinese
چکیده انگلیسی

This study aims to understand the phonological vowel inventory and the phonetic implementation of vowel categories in Shanghai Chinese by examining the acoustic realization of two complementary sets of vowels in the language, one set appearing in open syllables (OSVs) and the other in closed syllables with a glottal coda (CSVs). Two factors—consonant onset and prominence level—were controlled. Results confirmed that OSVs were longer than CSVs (by an average factor of 1.5) and were realized with a more expanded acoustic vowel space. Detailed analyses of the vowel formant data suggested that CSVs cannot be the reduced realization of OSVs. Instead, the seemingly spectral reduction of CSVs is an inherent feature of the vowel's phonetic implementation, in contrast to the more static spectral patterns of the OSVs. Such a spectral change of CSVs is proposed to be a speaker-controlled process, the purpose of which is to maximally differentiate CSVs from OSVs, the two sub-systems of the vowels of the language.

ناشر
Database: Elsevier - ScienceDirect (ساینس دایرکت)
Journal: Journal of Phonetics - Volume 36, Issue 4, October 2008, Pages 629–648
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